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against the introduction of reputed error into the GteeAbf tta-Ration , sefems to extend its baneful influence to subjects wbMi haye no c ^ wmejridn with tension , and to bind up the energies of a finely spirited people in a t&me and lifeless system of indolence and apath y * As some proof that these observations are not without foundation , I may mention , that there ate here n £ phi * losdphical instruments for the lectures in the colleges but what fife imported from England—that I went to thTee shops to procured neat Pf&yer-book of the Cafholte service , but could find none of a smaller size than large octavo
which was . worth the trouble of carrying home—and that the art of engraving evert is in so low a state , that there is not such a thing to be had as a good series of prints of the public buildings and antiquities . April 6 th , Easter Sunday . —This was a high day at Rome . I arrived at St . Peter ' s soon after nine , just as the Pope was coming , in great state , from the palace of the Vatican into the cathedral . He was seated in a chair
placed on a platform carried by men , and a canopy of silk was borne over his head . Before him was carried a most sumptuous mitre , resplendent with pearls and precious stones . He had another on his head ; and he was preceded and followed by a long train of cardinals , bishops , and priests , arrayed in their richest robes * The good Catholics kneeled down at his approach , and he returned their homage by a slight motion of the hand , in token © # benediction . When he had proceeded about two-thirds of the distance along the nave , he descended from his chair , laid aside his mitre ,
and went to adore the mass , or consecrated wafer , m one of the chapels attached to the church . He soon resumed his lofty situation , and was oorne along to a chair which had been prepared for him beyond the central part of fhs building . The service then commenced , his Holiness himself officiating at the high altar ; but it was very difficult , on account of the crowd , to obtain a good view of what was going * on . The number of persons assembled was very great , though rendered less apparent by the vastness of the building , h . seemed as if all Rome and halt Christendom were
come up to the grandest temple in the world ta celebrate the resurrection of their JLoreL Some were listening to the principal service , or trying to get a glimpse of the Pope ; others were attending ta their devotions in some of the side chapels , where smaller masses were celefntrtmg white the greater one was going on ; others were pressing round the statue of St . Peter , and eagerly endeavouring to kiss his toe ; and others , again , were wantfering about in search of a better place to see and hear . The music , too , was worthy of the * place and the occasion . The harmonious vohime of voice ,
unspoiled by an organ , rose triumphantly aloft , and the vastness of that astonishing dome could scarce swallow up the sound . It was with difficulty that I tope myself away , in order to secure a good place for seeing ttse Benediction , which i& g iven at the conclusion or the service . I took my station in one of the windows of the loggia or gallery , on the north side of the great court before the church , and I was well repaid for the' trouble which I had taken , for I had a good view of the whole . The spectacle which presented itself at the moment of the ; Benediction was singularly brilliant , more so thank had been ; on the preceding Thursday . The lovely fountains which threw lip their crystal flood' in the face of the mid-day sun , the innumerable crowd which wat } there a ^ enibted , the regiments of soldiers
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1828, page 747, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2566/page/19/
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